“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.” Napoleon Hill

“Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Napoleon Hill

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; A negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.” Napoleon Hill

“Do it now!” Napoleon Hill

“The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.” Napoleon Hill

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.” Napoleon Hill

“Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.” Napoleon Hill

“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.” Napoleon Hill

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” Napoleon Hill

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth

I don’t walk away from things I think are unfinished. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavour. – Eleanor   Roosevelt 

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb

Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.– Thomas A. EdisonBambara

A goal is a dream with a deadline.” Napoleon Hill